Bow Before Your King
Chapter 5 - Let's Stalk
Okay, so after that fight with Bowser vs Incineroar, Bowser for once got his way in the end, whether he was wrong in the beginning or not. But now with that fight over with, obviously he, or one of the other two main characters in this fic needs to do something else to past the time. After all, it is only chapter five of this. I would ask you all to guess, but for all we know, it could be anything lol.
...Yeah, I don't have that much to say here this time. Maybe I can say more at the end, so enjoy!
~KF
King Dedede was satisfied. Yes, he did actually ended up repeating the match with Snake, Bayonetta, and Meta Knight at his first opportunity after Bowser and Ganondorf's victory against Incineroar and Pit. Yet when he fought the three for a second time, the penguin king ended up claiming first place over Meta Knight. Getting the chance to replay the battle and winning it all was a great package for him, even brightening his whole mood for the day; the thoughts of the movie he was anticipating on viewing with his newcomer friend King K. Rool were put to the side at the time. Perhaps he could listen to Meta Knight's suggestions more often. Who knows? Pondering over his recommendations could have actually done Dedede more good than harm.
Although, as much as he was pleased, wasting time wandering through the halls of the mansion eventually created another common problem he had to deal with...
...He was gradually becoming bored.
Many people all over have fallen victim to the concept, yet for Smashers like Dedede, it meant that it was an even more serious problem. He had already fallen ill to it simply by sitting on the throne and being king, so there was no way he was going to let the state of boredom get a hold of him. Sharing a few words with pink puffball legend, Kirby, was also something to consider. And when it got to that extreme, he knew something was seriously wrong. He needed to do something. Fast.
Unfortunately for the heavyweight, besides killing time with his rival, his mind was blank. Sometimes, coming up with ideas to occupy oneself was easier said then done, and Dedede knew it all too well, in spite of the concept being as simple as smashing things with things hammer. Best thing for him to do was to simply interact with his fellow Smashmates until they could come up with a solution that would keep the anthropomorphic fighter occupied for at least the majority of the day.
After finding out that R.O.B. and Lucario both had nothing interesting to say, nor do with him, Dedede was left with no choice but to converse with someone that he could have at least related to, which he should have done in the first place. Great. That was ten minutes down the drain, which could have been spent on anything that would have satisfied his hunger on things to do.
Luckily for him, there was a sign just up ahead. With three minutes passing, Dedede ended up meeting Bowser of all humanoid animals again.
"How was the fight?"
"It was very well worth it!" Bowser smirked with a somewhat evil stare. "I tried telling Incineroar that I was a force to be reckoned with, but he's special if you know what I mean. Some people need to learn things the hard way and he's one of 'em. That egotistical piece of cat litter deserved what he got in the end. See, when you mess with Bowser Koopa, it's gonna bite you in the tail, and with me shouting 'karma' repeatedly near the end of the match, I wanted to make sure he knew it. Hopefully, he'll take that as a warning for the future."
"I felt kinda sorry for Pit." The robed warrior made a side point. "Palutena said that she'd better calm him down before Dark Pit finds out. It's the Smash Mansion, so someone's gonna spread it. ...But anyways,... what are your plans for the rest of the day?"
With the topic being changed entirely at that point, Bowser Koopa now held a simply stare at the other royal king. It was actually a good thing he mentioned it, though. Just what did the notorious, evil villain had plan for the rest of that Saturday? He got everything he wanted after what happened a couple hours prior, but he knew that it was barely past ten and there were still a couple hours left until it was supposed to rain, or at least, that was what he overheard from Ness and the Ice Climbers. Nonetheless, the spike-shelled fighter wanted to do at least one more thing before rain poured. All he had to do was to put his finger on it.
Suddenly after about half of a dozen seconds, he decided to simply ask Dedede of anything he had in mind, not knowing that the only reason to why he came up to Koopa in the first place was to ask him the exact same question.
"...I dunno …" Dedede stared diagonally at the floor, not even noticing that it was his own question in the beginning. "Kirby's being Kirby and being annoying everywhere. I actually thought of talking to him, but obviously it's not the best choice for me. And Meta Knight… Ooh, he said something about leaving with Snake, Bayonetta, and Shovel Knight on a bus to go check out some weapons at 'Warriors United'."
"...I thought Snake and Bayonetta each had their own car here…"
"They decided to take the bus for once. It was Shovel Knight's recommendation." Dedede informed.
"Oh…" Bowser ended up staring diagonally at the floor as well, yet it was in the opposite direction. Disregarding his fellow Smasher's question caused silence to curse them for quite a few moments. But then, Bowser's mouth slowly formed into smirk, with scrunched up eyebrows to confirm his sneaky expression.
He faced Dedede again to speak. "Say… I have an idea."
"We spy on them and see what they're doing?" Dedede did look anticipating for a bit, but his smile nimbly turned back into a frown, staring at the floor once more. "No, that's probably not what you had in mind... What's your idea?"
"...Actually, that's exactly what I had in mind." Bowser answered. "We sneak behind them without them knowing and spy on them in the store."
"...Oh, we can actually do it?" The Brawl veteran now look excited more than ever. "That'd be so good! Imagine Meta Knight talking about Galaxia for the umpteenth time to Snake and Bayonetta, not even having a clue that he's being watched! ...Okay, they have security cameras in store all the time, but we're the ones that are gonna sneak up on them without them knowing. ...So how are we gonna do this?"
"Okay, here's the plan. It is…" Bowser shifted his eyes above to stare at the big clock that was placed near the ceiling in the main hallway. "10:08 in the morning, which means that the bus will come in twenty two minutes. We need to take my Bowser Mobile and make sure we pull off just after the bus leaves the mansion and make sure we stay on 'em until we get to 'Warriors United'. When we get there, we can spy on them to see what they're doing just to entertain ourselves. Sure, that might sound a bit boring, but the best part is that they will have no idea that we will watch 'em the whole time."
Dedede was speechless with a jaw drop of astonishment. Who knew Bowser of all people would be such a good schemer? After all, he did manage to kidnap the princess over and over... even though the end result was never positive, but that was beside the point.
"That. Sounds. Brilliant." Triple D was still impressed regardless. "We can drive just safe enough of a distance between your car and the bus, and by the time we get there, we sneak in and keep our eyes on them. It'll be so much fun!"
"Oh, I know it will." Bowser nodded in assurance. "But you know what would make it even better? We could have some company with us. Let's split up and grab a couple people, and we can meet up in the parking lot in about ten minutes. I can guarantee you that no one would wanna miss this."
A sigh was sounded before the back door of the mansion opened, with Bowser walking out of the Smash home shaking his head. "That princess does not want to do anything that is actually enjoyable. She's too busy focusing on her dumb tea party that nobody cares about… And then she says that stalking people is like, 'invading their privacy' or something. Who cares!?"
Dedede followed right behind, with the door almost being closed right on his face. "And that Kirby is too busy playing with Pikachu and Yoshi. I actually did end up talking to him. Meta said that I should be more generous when it comes to dealing with people. Well, I tried that, and Kirby rejected it anyway. To him, hanging out with friends and eating are more important than getting the opportunity to spy on people. That's all he does! What is he gonna say when he finds out that it was actually worthwhile when we get back? And the thing is that I even told him that we're following Meta Knight, and that wasn't even enough."
"Oh, forget them." Bowser waved it off, already walking towards the parking lot. "Let's just get in the Bowser Mobile before we miss the bus. It'll be here in ten minutes, but it's not uncommon to have buses be on exactly on time every single day of course..."
-/-
Literally at the opposite end of the spectrum, out came Snake, Meta Knight, Shovel Knight, and Bayonetta from the front door, with Shovel Knight kindly allowing Bayonetta to exit the mansion first.
"Okay, boys." She started. "It's quite a long walk to the end of the pathway from here, but we'll make it. We're early, anyway."
"We do take the Smasher Bus to go to special events anyways, so this shouldn't be too bad..." Snake suddenly sighed. "Since we're already talking about vehicles, I'm still upset about that teenage moron that almost hit my car. She didn't even apologize."
"What did she do?"
"She grabbed me, took a picture of us and the car, posted it on social media to get likes and retweets, then deleted it about an hour later." He rolled his eyes with an irritated sigh at the memory. "I don't mean to be rude, but some fangirls are just plain stupid. I was gonna give her the benefit of the doubt because of her seeing me, but clearly she's not sorry at all. Does she know that I would have had the right to press charges? Wait, she would have no choice. That's how the traffic law works."
"You do not even have to be a Smasher long to realize what those type of fans can do." Meta Knight spoke to everyone. "People are still assuming that me and Kirby are both blood related. Kirby even has the nerve to publish pictures online on purpose just to fuel the fire. Does he not have the desire for the rumor to stop?"
Bayonetta shrugged folding her arms. "Ah, the little ones. They're always the type to stir things up, aren't they? Now you all know why I don't have a big interest in kids..."
No one discussed anything further as the bus came surprisingly earlier than usual, giving the message that the group of four came out the mansion at the perfect time. Though they were not at the bus stop at the time, the medium size, female Mii simply waited for them, anyway. Usually she was more strict to people being on time, yet at that moment, she was dealing with three Smashers and an Assist Trophy. Did it really sound as if she would have been hard on them? Even if she wanted to, she would have been attacked on the internet and even had the potential to be on Smash Bros. News. There was no way she had the intention of reinforcing her own rule saying that they were required to literally be standing next to the bus stop, even if they were a few inches from it.
-/-
"Okay, go go!"
"I'm going! I'm going!"
A spiky, purple vehicle quickly made its way through the driveway from the right side of the mansion. Making a quick left turn, Bowser and Dedede made it just in time before the bus officially took off.
"Alright, let's just stay on 'em and hope they don't notice…" Dedede said. Out of the gate, he and Bowser were at least four car spaces apart, meaning that there was only a slight chance that the bus passengers would have identified Bowser's vehicle.
Then again, even though the possibility was low, it was certainly not impossible.
-/-
"So the girl did not apologize? ...Or anything?"
Meta Knight, Snake, Bayonetta, and Shovel Knight were all in the back of the bus, ignoring the few people staring who were lucky enough to ride with them. It was almost as if the two adults and one teenager just won the lottery, the teenage female in question even taking a quick picture to forward it to all of her friends in an attempt to make them jealous. Nonetheless, the Miis have lived in the Smash World for years, so it was fortunate for the fighters that their space was respected.
"Clearly the opposite." The first announced third party character shook his head at Meta Knight. "Most of my fans would be begging for my forgiveness on their knees. They're probably still harassing her on Immediagram as we speak."
Bayonetta rolled her eyes with a brief sigh. "That evil witch… And not the good kind."
All the while, Shovel Knight happened to be the only one of the four that felt a little uneasy. "...Why do I have the feeling that we're being followed?"
No one seemed to be paying any attention, despite Shovel Knight not knowing that he would soon remember what came from his mouth, that is, if they were ever able to find out. Obliviousness was not uncommon to be the downfall of major situations, and for that case scenario, it coming in the play would make himself and his three Smasher friends the next victims to fall for it.
The bus then stopped near the corner of a four way street.
-/-
"Wait a minute, why are we stopping?"
"We're at a bus stop, moron!" Bowser glared at his passenger, pointing to the five people getting on board. "You really think we're just gonna go straight for 'Warriors United'? This is a whole bus route and we have to follow it! It pulled over, and we can't even do that because people would start to get suspicious!"
King Dedede, however, chose to ignore him. Yet not in defeat knowing he had a point, but his attention was now focused on the clouds above him. They were getting a little darker compared to earlier, and he could have sworn that he felt a raindrop on his beak.
With a worried look, he gradually moved his head back to Bowser. "...This car has a top, right?"
Getting soaked is not fun. That's all I have to say, lol.
But other than that, Bowser is potentially getting himself into trouble yet again, with Dedede being his little sidekick for the adventure. Yet, since it was about to pour, I wonder if Bowser would start to regret stalking them... probably not. I can't think of any questions this time, so I will see you all next Monday. But as always, reviews are appreciated. ;-)